The Cheek of It.

On Friday (2/9/11) the nurse at the centre of the Stepping Hill hospital murder investigation was sensationally released from prison. This was primarily to give Britain the opportunity to publicly apologise for the way it's been behaving towards News International. It now turns out that Rebecca Leighton, the nurse, intends to sue a number of British tabloid newspapers for damages. The News International title "The Sun" will no doubt be front and centre of that legal action.

So I think it's worth remembering that the actual Rebecca Leighton has not been cleared of any offence. All that's happened is that the charges against her have been rested because evidence that prosecutors thought would be made available to them has not been made available. So the charges can be restarted just as soon as that evidence becomes available.

I also think that the powers that be were very certain that a police investigation into Stepping Hill hospital would naturally lead to a red haired woman named Rebecca long before the investigation was allowed to begin.